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Tempore 20:08:53, die 01/27/2005 AD, hinc in
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Hi,I would like to sort some XML data by the names of the elements. I have found some XSLT that does that on the net, but there seems to be a problem when the elements have attributes. Is there a way to accomplish the above (possibly by finetuning the XSLT below)? Indeed, attribute nodes have to be copied to the result tree before any nodes of another type. Because of the sorting, the node-set loses document order and thus cannot any longer guarantee that the attributes are processed earlier than the elements and text nodes. one solution is this: <xsl:template match="@* | node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"> <xsl:sort select="name()"/> </xsl:apply-templates> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"> <xsl:sort select="name()"/> </xsl:apply-templates> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> But since the relative output order of attributes after serialization of the result tree depends on the processor, you might as well omit the attribute sorting: <xsl:template match="@* | node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"> <xsl:sort select="name()"/> </xsl:apply-templates> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template>
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